I wondered if one of him Olney, and Kurkjen would be let go. I liked his articles but I'm not sure they needed all three.
This is the first name that I'll actually miss seeing/reading
ESPN Laying Off Additional On-Air Personalities
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I wondered if one of him Olney, and Kurkjen would be let go. I liked his articles but I'm not sure they needed all three.
This is the first name that I'll actually miss seeing/reading
I'd be interested to know what some of these people make, because I honestly have no idea. I'm assuming there's quite a difference between the lowest and highest paid on screen/ radio personalities. Especially for people like Greenberg and Golic. I'm not a huge fan of their show but listen in the AM just to get caught up. If those two do their show 75% of the time I'd be surprised.
Problem being that any Sportscenter highlight has likely been on the interwebs for hours before they show it.
Been on an extended vac since november, I don't wish it on anyone. Then again I sure have enjoyed it.
I don't think ESPN is in a place to negotiate with talent. I think Disney is the one requesting that ESPN cut $X-amount of salaries and ESPN had to figure out where those cuts came from.
Came to express either indignance or happiness over Ubben, come to find out they booted the lil troll years ago. Carry on.
Exactly, it's just like MTV and music videos. yeah they could constantly show them on live television, but anyone can look them up on YouTube and watch them at their own convenience. The model has completely changed over the past few years and ESPN didn't adapt quickly enough.
I think ESPN is dying - or maybe just struggling financially - because of rights fees and changes in the way we consume entertainment now. I'm sure execs have been pared back in the last few years.
I wonder what will happen to Big 12 broadcasting rights when they're up for negotiations. I would wager that a drop is in order, which will impact ISU's budgets.
Beth Mowins (?) is a pretty good analyst i think.
All of this. I used to put on SportsCenter while I was getting ready in the morning or when I was getting ready to go to sleep. The beauty of it was non-stop highlights. I didn't have to pay attention to the whole show, but when I heard about a game, I could stop and watch.
For those that say you can get highlights at any time, I agree. However, there was a benefit to having them all at once without having to search for each one individually. If anything, their "exclusives" and "breaking news" should be web-based only and give people the option to read about them or ignore them.
The other thing that irritated me about SportsCenter was their "Up Next" scroll on the left side of the screen. I'd see something coming up that I'd want to watch, they'd go to commercial and then three other stories got bumped in front of it. Nope. Don't promise me a highlight and then bump it back because Tom Brady sent some food back at a restaurant.
People keep saying this but it was MTV and ESPN that changed what they did. It's why both are in the tank. Just because The Real World is your highest rated show doesn't mean you get rid of TRL and only play reality shows and Full House.
Jay Crawford out. Didn't even realize he was still on air but he was always boring beyond belief.
I think people confuse Doris Burke and Beth Mowins because apparently all sports women look the same or something unless they are sideline people.
Baseball Tonight getting scaled back from reports. When that was Gammons, Kruk, Reynolds and Ravich, it was the best show on ESPN.
This list of names was provided by Richard Deitsch on SI.com: noted NFL information broker Ed Werder; longtime columnist Johnette Howard; espnW staffer Jane McManus; college football and ESPN Radio analyst Danny Kannel; NHL reporters Scott Burnside, Pierre LeBrun and Joe McDonald and a mass of college sports reporters including C.L. Brown, Eamonn Brennan, Jeremy Crabtree, Brett McMurphy, Max Olson, Dana O’Neil, Jesse Temple, Derek Tyson, Austin Ward, Ted Miller and Brian Bennett; MLB reporter Doug Padilla, ESPN Dallas Columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor, soccer reporter Mike Goodman and ESPNU anchor Brendan Fitzgerald. NFL analyst Trent Dilfer, SportsCenter anchor Jay Crawford and longtime MLB reporter Jayson Stark also tweeted they were being let go.
I'm pretty sure they just rolled him out when they needed someone to cover something in Cleveland.
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It has probably been 15 years since I last watched ESPN for anything other than a live game.
Nothing like having this mess play out on social media, fire by fire.
Nothing like having this mess play out on social media, fire by fire.
what's odd to me, is that their best writers are being fired. If they were concerned with digital, then clearly they don't understand content marketing.
